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ABSTRACT THE acceptance and refusal of foreign orders by British subjects has hitherto been universally misunderstood. The existence of the Queen's Regulations, which you have reprinted

in your columns (vol. viii. p.481), prohibiting the receipt of these orders without special permission, must, after the discussion which took place in the House of Commons during last

session, surprise many of your readers, who will naturally ask why regulations so stringent and so habitually disregarded, have been either kept entirely private in the Foreign Office, or,

if published, have never been followed up. As it is, I will venture to say that not one out of some hundreds who have received foreign orders are aware of the prohibition or have any obvious

means of becoming aware of it. Announcements of the presentation to British subjects (and it is assumed acceptance of by them) of such orders habitually appear in the most conspicuous type

of the most widely circulated papers, but never a hint on the part of the Foreign Office that the recipients are violating Her Majesty's rules, as drawn up by itself and signed by the

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